Kenny Chesney Announces 2019 'Songs for the Saints' Tour

posted by Chandler Reeves -
Nov 7, 2018

Having set and often broken his own records with 2018’sTrip Around the Sun Tour– including over a million fans at Foxborough’s Gillette Stadium and becoming the single biggest-seller at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium – Kenny Chesney wanted to change things up. He knows his massive stadium shows are a rite of summer, playing to over a million people on every single tour, but the 8-time Entertainer of the Year wanted a little more intimacy for 2019 by taking the music to where the fans are.

“I wanted to change it up,” says Chesney. “Last year was so intense, and amazing. No Shoes Nation took it to a whole other level, and they blewallof us away. It was the kind of energy you don’t take for granted. So when we started thinking about next year, they made me wanna come to them. Rather than the massive two-day set-up, make everyone come to a stadium away from their homes, I wanted to go to where the fans live... strip things back a bit, and make it a little more intimate.”

“I love reaching to the very top, the very back of a football stadium, but I also love the idea of really being able to seethe back of the room.”

So, after much speculation, Kenny Chesney announces hisSongs for the Saints 2019 Tour. Initial dates include Champaign, Illinois, Grand Rapids, Michigan and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, makingSongs for the Saints 2019 Toura decidedly different kind of tour. Focusing on the heartland, mid-Atlantic and South over the course of three months, it’s a chance for the songwriter/superstar from East Tennessee to get into several cities without stadiums – and Chesney is fired up about the prospects.

“This is the kind of thing you do for passion,” Chesney explains. “To rein things in a bit, change up the way we present the music, I know these songs will show us things they don’t when we’re in those massive stadiums. I never worry about the energy or the passion, but I think the songs are different depending on where you play them. So I’m fired up for 2019.”